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Title Leishmanioses do continente americano / Fátima Conceição-Silva, Carlos Roberto Alves (organizadores)
Published Rio de Janeiro, : SciELO - Editora FIOCRUZ, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (512 pages)
Summary In Brazil, it was already responsible for epidemics in different cities. In the last ten years, its lethality has increased in several regions of the country. In various parts of the world it has been expanding, including in places where previously there was no transmission record. Infection by parasites of the Leishmania genus causes one of the most neglected tropical diseases today. It is estimated that there are 350 million people at risk of contracting the infection, especially in the poorest areas of the planet, and that two million new cases of leishmaniasis occur each year. This serious scenario justifies the effort undertaken by the organizers and other researchers at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) who are experts on the subject, as well as by professionals from other Fiocruz units and Brazilian institutions: they have prepared a collection that compiles existing knowledge about the subject, identifies the main challenges and discusses strategies to face them
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Parasites -- Diseases
Leishmaniasis -- Brazil
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous.
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
Leishmaniasis
SUBJECT America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004220
Americas https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000569
Subject America
Brazil
Form Electronic book
ISBN 8575415689
9788575415689
9788575414392
8575414399
OTHER TI Leishmaniasis of the American continent eng